Old Muntz TV for sale Locally to me, Should I pick it up?

[vortalexfan]

Originally Posted by Kevin Kuehn

One advantage of leaving it in place, is that if the springy dag contact becomes a bad connection you'll still have some filtering. Why not temporarily unhook it to see if it's dragging down your high voltage?

That's what I was thinking of doing, but I'm not sure of how to do that because the lead from the 1B3 tube and the 1 Meg Resistor both attach to the top of that capacitor with solder, and my soldering iron had a hard time melting the solder that was attaching those two leads to that capacitor.